China是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 瓷器，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Just look, Lizabetha Prokofievna,' he began, with a kind of feverish haste; 'these china cups are supposed to be ex-tremely valuable.
-- ha!You are a regular child, prince!However, I cannot help seeing that you always treat me like like a fragile china cup.
-- The crash, the cry, the sight of the fragments of valuable china covering the carpet, the alarm of the company what all this meant to the poor prince it would be difficult to con-vey to the mind of the reader, or for him to imagine.
-- 'I'm all right; yesterday I was a little ' 'I know, I heard; the china vase caught it!I'm sorry I wasn't there.
-- It was rumoured that he had purposely wait-ed for the solemn occasion of a large evening party at the house of his future bride, at which he was introduced to sev-eral eminent persons, in order publicly to make known his ideas and opinions, and thereby insult the 'big-wigs,' and to throw over his bride as offensively as possible; and that, re-sisting the servants who were told off to turn him out of the house, he had seized and thrown down a magnificent china vase.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.
-- Then run to Jarley's besides several compositions in prose, purporting to be dialogues between the Emperor of China and an oyster, or the Archbishop of Canterbury and a dissenter on the subject of church-rates, but all having the same moral, namely, that the reader must make haste to Jarley's, and that children and servants were admitted at half-price.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden china type of prettiness.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Never once did he complain of the length or fatigue of a journey, never make an objection to pack his portmanteau for whatever country it might be, or however far away, whether China or Congo.
-- The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas.
-- I will not mention all the varieties which passed before my dazzled eyes, all the collection of the seas of China and Japan.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- added Jo, as they both laughed and ate out of one plate, the china having run short.
-- Jo disgraced herself by nearly fainting away, and had to be doctored by Laurie in the china closet.
-- To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHINA SAILOR.
-- Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.
-- By the straits of Sunda, chiefly, vessels bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas.
-- Hence it is, that, while other ships may have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like themselves.
-- Now, from the South and West the Pequod was drawing nigh to Formosa and the Bashee Isles, between which lies one of the tropical outlets from the China waters into the Pacific.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To the girls, who could not listen to their cousin, and who had nothing to do but to wish for an instrument, and examine their own indifferent imi-tations of china on the mantelpiece, the interval of waiting appeared very long.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes; and the set of breakfast china is twice as handsome as what belongs to this house.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rector's, with its polished marble walls and floor, its profusion of lights, its show of china and silverware, and, above all, its reputation as a resort for actors and professional men, seemed to him the proper place for a successful man to go.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long out of di'monds, and fill it full of chewing-gum, or whatever you want, and fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry, they've got to do it and they've got to do it before sun-up next morning, too.
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